Library Resources and Finding Aids for UN Information

Finding UN Documents at Yale

ORBIS, the Yale University Library's online public access catalog, contains the holdings for United Nations serials and the depository materials received since 1998. With the completion of the retrospective conversion of the public catalog, the online catalog represents all of the secondary literature--books, journals, and microforms about the United Nations--that the Library owns. ORBIS provides circulation information for all items as well as holdings information for most journal titles.

Morris (Law Library's Catalog)

The Law Library holds selected materials about the United Nations, particularly the International Court of Justice.

Eureka

EUREKA offers easy-to-use online access to a wide array of databases, including the Research Libraries Group's RLIN bibliographic database of more than 22 million titles. Use EUREKA to uncover a wealth of resources in almost any area of study, or to locate items in specific libraries and research collections. EUREKA provides catalog records for books, journals, maps, sound recordings, musical scores, films, archives, and computer files held in research, corporate, and public libraries, as well as museums, archives and historical societies. All searches may be easily printed, downloaded or e-mailed directly to you. Use the REQUEST Button in Eureka to request items that Yale does not own through Interlibrary Loan.

Research Bibliographies and Guides

United Nations Documentation: Research Guide, UN Dag Hammerskjöld Library

Provides an overview of the various types of documents and publications issued by the Organization (e.g. reports, resolutions, meeting records, sales publications, press releases) and gives guidance as to where to find them in either electronic or paper format and how to work with them.

UNBIS Thesaurus, UN Dag Hammerskjöld Library

The UNBIS Thesaurus contains the terminology used in subject analysis of documents and other materials relevant to United nations programmes and activities. The thesaurus terms are used in UNBISNet.

United Nations Depository Libraries, Dag Hammerskjöld Library, United Nations (New York)

Describes the Depository Library System and provides a link to the List of Depository Libraries Receiving UN Materials organized by country.

UN Agency Library Catalogs

Dag Hammerskjöld Library (DHL), United Nations (New York)

A description of the services and collections, databases and publications, and reference guides of the DHL. Also links to a directory of DHL services and a listing of depository libraries worldwide. Please consult your closest UN depository library before contacting the DHL. United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBISnet) is an index to United Nations documentation published since 1979 and includes the catalogue of the Dag Hammerskjöld Library. UN-I-QUE (United Nations Info Quest) is a ready reference database created to respond to frequently asked questions, focusing on documents and publications of a recurrent nature.

Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva

UNCAPS (United Nations System Shared Cataloguing and Public Access System)

Includes access to the following databases: FAO, ILO, JOLIS, UNBIS, and WIPO

World Bank Documents and Reports

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